• Mundial.Scola and Argentina, against age and logic

Although it was speculated with his possible return to Spanish basketball, specifically to play at Real Madrid, Luis Scola has ended up signing for Olimpia Milan or. The Argentine pivot joins the 39-year-old project of the Italian team, which will be led by Ettore Messina and has already recruited other great players such as Canarian base Sergio Rodríguez , from the current Euroleague champion, the CSKA of Moscow.

Scola returns to the old continent after having spent the last two seasons in China (in Shanxi Zhongyu and Shanghai Sharks), where he arrived after a decade in the NBA . The Buenos Aires team went through several teams such as Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets , highlighting especially in its early era in the Texan franchise, which entered the Best Rookies quintet in 200 8 and dispelled all the doubts about him before he made the leap to American basketball for having a seemingly short stature (2.06 meters) for an indoor player.

He is also one of the most successful players in the history of his team and one of the most illustrious members of the Golden Generation of Argentine basketball. Together with Ginobili, Oberto, Delfino and Nocioni he won the Olympic gold in Athens 2004 after having touched the glory two years before at the Indianapolis World Cup, where they fell to Yugoslavia in a very tight final. Already with his indefatigable companions of retired battles and with a new batch of Argentine players, this summer he added another silver to his record in a World Championship in China.

Scola will return this season to Buesa Arena , the court where he became one of the most dominant pivots of European basketball as a Baskonia player. In his seven campaigns in Vitoria he raised an ACB League (2002), three Copas del Rey (2002, 2004 and 2006) and many other Super Cups of Spain (2005, 2006, 2007) , in addition to being personally appointed to be named Rookie del year in 2000 and MVP of the competition in 2005 and 2007 .

Scola will have the opportunity to fight again for the title that resisted him during his time as a baskonist, the Euroleague . He was about to get it in 2001, when in the final he fell against the Kindergarten of Bologna, which was precisely directed by his coach in Milan, Ettore Messina and commanded on the track by his teammate at the Albiceleste Emanuel Ginobili. In addition, with Baskonia he has played another three Final Four consecutively between 2005 and 2007 .

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